Dr Clint Knight ~ Lecturer, Psychology

Clinton Knight is a social and political psychologist with work and interests grounded in intergroup processes, social cognition, and individual differences.

Specific interests include:

• Acquisition and development of political and religious ideologies.
• System legitimizing biases including patriotism and nationalism, collective consciousness, apathy and insight blindness.  
• Prejudice and ex-offender reintegration. 
• Psychology of collective action, conflict and terrorism.

 Available projects for Honours and Post Graduate students:

• Ex-offender reintegration (acceptance and resistance).
• Willingess to engage in collective action as a function of identity, patriotism and nationalism.  

Teaching

• PY3101: Psychological Research Methods and Interpretation (Level 3; TSV)
• PY3105: Working it: Psychology in the Work Force (Level 3; SIN & TSV)
• PY4202: Individual Differences in Personality (Level 4; ONL)

Research Disciplines

• Social and personality psychology (5205)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding knowledge (2801)

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Journal Articles

• Platow M, Knight C, Van Rooy D, Augoustinos M, Bar-Tal D and Spears R (2023) “We’re tolerant and they’re prejudiced”: Same-sex marriage supporters’ and opponents’ perceptions of supportive and oppositional claims. PLOS ONE, 18 (8).
• Platow M, Strong I, Grace D, Knight C, Augoustinos M, Bar-Tal D, Spears R and Van Rooy D (in press) Gender-based in-group social influence can lead women to view a hostile sexist attitude as less prejudiced and more true. Journal of Social Psychology,
• Platow M, Van Rooy D, Wang C, Ollis L, Knight C, Blakey P, Calaby P, Cho H, Kim J, Naar H, Oh J, Stoney C, Wilson-Woolley K, Augoustinos M, Bar Tal D and Spears R (2022) Lay perceptions of modern prejudice toward "White" and "Asian" people: It matters who said it, whom it's about, and who's judging. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 25 (4). pp. 674-687
• Bastian B, Bain P, Buhrmester M, Gómez Á, Vázquez A, Knight C and Swann W (2015) Moral vitalism: seeing good and evil as real, agentic forces. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41 (8). pp. 1069-1081
• Knight C, Tobin S and Hornsey M (2014) From fighting the system to embracing it: control loss promotes system justification among those high in psychological reactance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 54. pp. 139-146

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